Tuffets

I just recently discovered tuffets and I have fallen in love with them!  For the first time in my life I know what a tuffet is.  I mean, of course, I had heard the nursery rhyme, "Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet", but I never gave a thought to what a tuffet was.  Until now.  What got me started on all this was a post on my Facebook newsfeed from a quilt group that I am a member of.  Someone posted a picture of this beautiful tuffet that someone had made when they took the class "Stupendous Stitching" from the Craftsy website.  Before I go any further, here are some pictures of the beautiful tuffet that I fell in love with.  This is what started it all.

 

As soon as I saw this, I knew I had to figure out how to make one.  So, I started doing some research and found all kinds of photos, which I will share in a little bit.  But, I found a website that pretty much describes how to make tuffets.  There are round tuffets and square tuffets.  There is a free pattern for the square tuffet, but you have to order the pattern for the round one.  You can order it here.  You can also order a kit, but it's quite expensive, over $150.  There are many sources for ordering the kits.  Here is one.  There are a few others and you can do a search in Google for those.  My biggest issue is how to get the plywood cut into a circle and then getting the holes drilled.  We are having a quilt show here in my city starting on Wednesday.  There is a quilt shop that will be there that will have supplies to make these, so I'm really excited to go to their booth and see what I can come up with.

 

Now, without further ado, here is some more eye candy.

 

 

And here is the square tuffet, which is quite pretty too.